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Talk Is Cheap Vol IV

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Released
  
December 2004

Label
  
2.13.61

Artist
  
Henry Rollins

Genres
  
Spoken word, Comedy

Length
  
159:26

Talk Is Cheap Volume 4 (2004)
  
Provoked (2008)

Release date
  
December 2004

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Recorded
  
16 April 2004 at San José State University in San José, CA

Similar
  
Henry Rollins albums, Spoken word albums, Other albums

Talk Is Cheap: Volume 4 is the 14th live spoken word album by Henry Rollins, released December, 2004 on 2.13.61 Records. It was recorded on April 16, 2004 at San José State University in San José, CA. Clocking in at nearly 160 minutes, it is his longest release to date.

Contents

Topics

Warming Up the Spleen

  • Fox News and Bill O'Reilly
  • Dr. Phil McGraw

    • First On the List

  • Dying record labels

    • Bush, of Course

  • President George W. Bush
  • Iraq War

    • Let's Go To Mars

  • NASA's continuing missions to Mars

    • Spina Bifida Boy

  • Henry's experience meeting a resilient young man with spina bifida after a show in Washington D.C.

    • Sermonizing From the Mount

  • Henry's experience lecturing a complacent teenage skater who begged him for money

    • Unleash the Compassion!

  • President George W. Bush donating American tax dollars to Christian organizations
  • Pope John Paul II
  • Mel Gibson and The Passion of the Christ (2004)
  • Abstinence-only sex education

    • Kevin and Sean

  • Same-sex marriage and homophobia
  • Janet Jackson's 2004 Super Bowl halftime show controversy
  • Girls Gone Wild
  • Henry's frustrating dating experiences as a teenager

    • The Conversation Pt. 1

  • Not fitting in with people in Los Angeles, CA
  • Henry's frustrating dating experiences as an adult

    • The Conversation Pt. 2

  • Henry's surreal experience during an attempted robbery of his home

    • I Can't Get Behind That!

  • Being on the USO Tour
  • Making a record with William Shatner, Ben Folds and Adrian Belew
  • Hanging out at William Shatner's house
  • The 2004 Presidential elections
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger

    • Disc 1

    1. "Warming Up the Spleen" - 6:35
    2. "First On the List" - 5:05
    3. "Bush, of Course" - 13:00
    4. "Let's Go To Mars" - 5:17
    5. "Spina Bifida Boy" - 8:23
    6. "Sermonizing From the Mount" - 5:28
    7. "Unleash the Compassion!" - 35:46

    Disc 2

    1. "Kevin and Sean" - 18:33
    2. "The Conversation Pt. 1" - 11:50
    3. "The Conversation Pt. 2" - 14:24
    4. "I Can't Get Behind That!" - 35:10

    Credits

  • Mike Curtis - Recording
  • Rae Di Leo - Mixing

    • References

    Talk Is Cheap Vol IV Wikipedia
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